Sorry haven't posted much and might not for a while...just too tired and all over the place. I've been lurking a bit though. Once I get the energy to post I find that I've missed so much and it's hard to catch up and I don't want all my posts to be all me me me! HA like this one...
Must get onto that white noise CD, thanks Oli'sMum.
Samm, L was out of his 0000 clothes a while ago now!
M23, lol I've had an explosive projectile poo all over me too
Oli's mum just remember you asked about the sore bottom for little A... Charlie too has the explsovie bottom but it's not sore. I remember with Aidan though he got nappy rash very young and my CHN asked me what i was eating. It turned out i thought i was being really healthy by eating my stone fruits but they aren't good for the insides of bubba's at all. Too young... So all i could say is have a look at what you're eating and change his bottom as soon as he is dirty so it can't get to his skin. I used the curash cream for Aidan and that always cleared up whatever he had. I think i remember seeing a tv add also where they say bepantham (sp) is good because it leaves a barrier when you apply it. Hope he's not sore for too long
Hey Holly, how is Leon going now? Has the chiro helped? I am taking J to our chiro tomorrow. So hoping he can help as Jasper did not sleep at all last night and is only just asleep at 3pm today............. no sleep before this.....but this is what my babies do for some reason. Definitely not having anymore, Im too old for this!!
Hope all the bubs are well, I cannot believe J is 4 weeks old today! Where did that time go? All in one big blur I think! Somehow I have managed to bake today though, which is ridiculous as I never bake! Go the packet mixes! Had to keep DD entertained.
Now DD2 is just yelling out from her bedroom, right next to J. I'd better go... xo
M23, to be honest I can't really tell if the chiro has made any difference...he did really seem to enjoy it while he was there though, but I can't say it's helped his reflux all that much. I am taking him to a paed anyway as I hate seeing him unsettled and miserable and with something like this I need a quick fix!
Oli's Mum - i've been using pawpaw cream on Rubys' bottom, has cleared up the redness very quickly.
Mto3 - you baked? Well done!!! That is something that i havent been able to do, cooking dinner is hard enough
Holly - good luck with the paed.
AFM - mothers group yesterday went ok. Although in the long term i dont think that it is my thing but i'll stick it out for the next 5 weeks and go from there, Ruby had her 4 week check up today, she now weighs 4.1kg and has grown 3.5cm in 2 weeks.ANd today she had tummy time and turned her head right around. This week we'll aim to get into the garden and do a tidy up as next week it feels like it will be 'babysit Ruby' week. Monday i'll leave her for the 1st time with my SIL to sit in hospital whilst my best friend has an operation and Wed i have been summons to work to meet my new CEO so Ruby will be with my Mum. I guess leaving her had to happen at sometime before i went back to work. She is just sooo cute.
Hi to everyone and i hope you all have a good night. xx
We use sudacrem for nappy rash, works a treat. I used it on J last week and it cleared the redness up after one use.
Holly, hope you find an answer for Leon's reflux. Maybe if you keep going to the chiro. We went today adn I know we now have to go regularly for a while. DD2 was the same, although it might be too slow (and expensive.... that's our challenge).
Well, J seems to have more wind since coming home, but he has slept! The chiro said he had subluxations for sleeping, bowel, immunity etc, so glad we have been. I am also cutting out dairy and a friend told me today her little one had the explosive poo's (like J) and it was an intolerance to dairy. the mum drank it and the proteins came through in breastmilk. DD1 had a dairy intolerance, so going to try to avoid dairy (I say try because I accidentally had a yoghurt before....but have bought soy milk so at least my tea will be non dairy).
Terrible night, here's hoping for better.
How is everyone doing?
Samm, it's hard leaving bubs at first, but it is nice to know you can do it, and that Ruby can too. Nice for your SIl and mum, they'll love it!! xo
Thanks for the advice on the red bum. I tried a sample of Bepanthan that i was given yesterday and today its gone! May stick with that for now. I have been using the paw paw cream on the milk pimples that are coming out now and that seems to be doing the job - thats the part i hate, my cute little man with spots! I think it may be the stone fruit and grapes i was eating re the explosive poos. The clinic nurse came today and she said some sugary fruits give the extra wind A has been having and to stay away from grapes. She also said that a sugary diet contributes to wind, i explained i thought i was being really good but i have been having a fair amt of fruit and she also reminded me that carbs turn to sugar so my weet bix, toast, bread on sandwich, pasta, potatos etc is turning to sugar. This with fruit juice is probably a bit much so i have to really watch it now.
Also, i got a friend to pick me up the Save Our Sleep book today. Had a quick look over it this afternoon. She seems pretty strict with the routine thing - will see how we go. I would love to get the nights in some kind of routine especially, we are just so sleep deprived. How are you all going through the night now? How often are you feeding and sleeping? Seems like i am up the whole time. Last night we put him in between us just to get some down time.
Well, DH just drove in so i am off, hope its a good night for all tonight.
Holly how are you going? Don't worry about personals, just come and say hi when you can. Here's hoping that things will settle down for you soon, the early part is the hardest.
Samm my mothers group was a much larger group to begin with and like i said it's not for everyone, there's only 3 of us now but we catch up regularly and love it. It's worth going for the health nurse part of it though. You're so ambitious (sp... too tired) with getting out in the garden and tidying up, i need to but just dont' have the time or the motivation right now. I've barely cleaned the house...
M23 i have intentions of baking too... to occupy Aidan. I bought a cookie packet mix and i thought i'd try and make them with Aidan one afternoon.
Oli's mum you must be relieved to get some useful information about food and breastfeeding. We've had a pretty hard night and i've had a really hard day and i just feel so responsible. I've been trying to find some useful info on the internet but it's really hard. Charlie barely slept and hour at a time all day and he has been really squirmy and windy which he's normally free of during the day. I've had a hard day.... And now i feel quite sick in the stomach after seeing what you wrote about the carbs, i just had a bowl of pasta, tuna and cheese for dinner. Boring as anything but i didn't want to eat the rissotto i made because there was garlic in the stock i used. Now i'm wondering what we're in for... I have weet bix every morning, i did while i breastfed Aidan also.
Charlie is asleep at the moment and it's 4 and a half hours since his last feed, i'm not going to wake him though because this is the best sleep he's had all day and since before 2am this morning. Aidan was terrible this morning, really naughty but i struggle to keep a straight face when i'm telling him off, he looks at me and i just melt. I think that's it for me, i'm too tired to think now. I'll be in bed soon i think
Hope you are all well and i hope things improve for us all soon
Sorry for not posting much, I have just been enjoying having time with DH while he is on holidays as he goes back to work next week. I have been lurking though!
Noah is growing so quickly, and has put on 400gm since he came home from hospital last thursday, and is nearly back to his birthweight.
We are extremely blessed with his sleep routine, and last night he slept from 10.30 pm until 8am, and the 3 nights before that he went to bed at about 9pm and he only woke once during the night for a feed and went back to sleep until about 10am.
He cluster feeds during the day though, and is quite awake from lunch until late afternoon.
The MCHN said it was fine to let him sleep so long at night as he is gaining weight so well, and is obviously getting enough during his cluster feeds during the day. I am not expecting this routine to last though, and I am sure that I will have some sleepless nights coming soon!! The MCHN also said he may be a great sleeper because he is a bigger newborn bub.
I have also been giving him quite a long warm bath every night right before bed, and let him float away in it for a good 10-15 minutes or so as he loves it, and this seems to really settle him well. We also have him in his cot in his room (it is directly across from our room, and we leave the doors open, so it is like being in our room anyway), which is so different to what I did with DD, as I always had her in a basinette right next to my bed.
M23- I hope the chiro helps J sleep. Good luck with the non dairy diet, it is a hard one, DD is non dairy.
Kirst- It is hard telling them off when they look so cute! I have been letting DD get away with some things that she normally would not because I feel guilty about the time I am spending with Noah!
Oli's Mum- Bepanthan and Pawpaw were my miracle creams for everything last time with DD, and are the only creams I use! We are feeding every 2 hours or so during the day, I guess to make up for the feeds he misses out on at night.
Samm- I am glad you enjoyed Mums group! Have you got child care sorted for R for when you return to work? Noah already has a place at creche for one day a week. I had to take it now, because they are like GOLD! I won't go back to the salon for 6 weeks or so though, and will only go back for one day for a while. The lady that is in charge of the Babies room at my creche is my dear friends mother, and is like another grandmother to DD, so it will make it much easier to leave Noah when the time comes, and I will go and feed him in between clients also.
Holly- I hope you find some solutions for Leon's reflux.
Well, I am off to read a book in bed. I hope everyone has a night full of sleep!
Last edited by Two Possums; April 2nd, 2009 at 07:19 AM.
Kirst - am in a similar boat to you i think. As for the carbs, obviously we have to eat them for energy etc and i am a huge believer in NOT cutting out carbs where so many diets advocate it. The point she was making to me was that we are getting sugar more than is actually obvious. I am still eating weetbix (with a spoonful of psyllium husks on it for roughage and digestion) and will not cut out other carbs, will just be more mindful of how much i have had each day. As for finding stuff on the internet, there is a site called cradle2kindy which you can register with and they send out a weekly letter with heaps of tips. There is also a free downloadable "book" which was full of really helpful information. Take a look at it and see what you think. I just saved it and refer back to it when i want reinforcements! Oli has been naughty this week too. I don't know how many times i have asked him to LISTEN! Although this morning when A woke up and began to cry i walked in to find Oli rocking him gently in the cradle and very gently patting him. A stopped crying straight away - i felt so proud of his big brother.
Cindy - WOW - thats a monster sleep. Take advantage of that, i really hope it continues for you, i am aspiring to join you in that asap!!!
A went down well this morning really well so i am off to catch up on things around here.
Calm vibes to all the bubs for a day where they will be kind to us mums... xxx
Cindy - thats great news about your childcare placement for Noah and it amkes it beeter that you know the lady that will be looking after Naoh there. Make sure though that when you go back to work that you dont get sucked in to doing more than you want/should. I am lucky that Mum is my childcare. She loves babies and i had no choice in the fact that she wanted to look after Ruby when i returned to work, so between Mum and my SIL being available i am very lucky.
Hi to everyone else that has posted.
Today was a great day - i have 4 hours of uniterrupted gardening. Mum took Ruby this morning, along with my 4 yr old nephew and 1 yr old niece and shooed me off to Bunnnings. I worked like a trooper planting standard roses, standard gardenias and azalea's, fixing my sprinkler system and pulling out weeds. So now my hamstrings are tight but i now have a tidy low maitenance garden again Quiet day tomorrow as they are forecasting thunderstorms but i have a friend popping around in the morning for a quick visit. Will likely be spending the 'quiet' periods writing out birth announcement/thank you cards that arrived today.I might even chase up the church that still hasnt called me back......
Hi Everyone! Has taken me a while but I've found you!
My computer has died so can only use DH's work one for a short time every now and then...miss BB sooooo much!
Anika is doing great...has reflux and just started the losec and what a difference...poor little thing! I have just started getting out and driving again after cs...but still pretty house bounbd due to whooping cough outbreak.
Can't wait to be back more often ....posting in the feb bub's group but hope it's ok to catch up with you guys too!
Big hugs to mums and bubs! Exxx
Hi all just droping in for a quick hi, too tired for personals or to even write about myself, i'm off to bed. I just posted my birth story finally after 3 weeks, just wanted to let you know...
HOpe you are all good and that bub's are being beautiful for you. Will try and catch up with everyone tomorrow
Ellie, great to hear from you!! Of course it's ok to post here, I would be sad if you didnt' after our pregnancy journey!! ALso did you get DAyls' email?
Hope everyone is doing well. We're still not sleeping day or night, infact less sleep than before if that's possible...'
gotta run, DD2 is rocking J but she is sick, so I have to keep her away.. NOT FUN. x
hi guys! just wanted to pop in and say hi! hope you are all well!
kirst- i just posted my birth story the other day too!
m23- i hope j doesn't get sick!
ellie- it is great to hear from you!
well, dh is back to work today, so time for some routine during the day! noah is still being a great little sleeper and has settled into a 8.30pm-6.30/7am sleep straight through every night (sorry, i feel really bad saying that when i know there are lot of very tired mums in here).
My name is Jen and my son Ryder was born on 4th March. Would be really great to keep in contact with people who are going through the same things as me. I'm the only one of my friends who has a baby although many are preggo.
Thanks
Not much to report, basically said everything on the other forum Dayl set up, and wouldn't want to bore you all with the same old!
Had mothers group today and took L in the HAB as it's one of few ways he will remain settled. Went well! All the other babies were grizzling and crying and he stayed asleep! THey all reckon I'm lying when I tell them about how he is at home! LOL so typical. Lets hope he is like that tonight!
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This week we'll aim to get into the garden and do a tidy up as next week it feels like it will be 'babysit Ruby' week. Monday i'll leave her for the 1st time with my SIL to sit in hospital whilst my best friend has an operation and Wed i have been summons to work to meet my new CEO so Ruby will be with my Mum. I guess leaving her had to happen at sometime before i went back to work. She is just sooo cute.
I have weet bix every morning, i did while i breastfed Aidan also.
LOL so typical. Lets hope he is like that tonight!
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